I suggest this is in fact Ryerson, although I believe also subject to abuse by students etc.
This number just called and while I was looking it up here on this site, my teenager answered. I asked them who they were talking to and it was their friend, calling from Ryerson.
Look folks, here's the set-up i have that has reduced my telephone grief dramatically. You know do-not-call lists are ineffective, but here's the next best approach and doesn't rely on outside aid. Go buy a Hiro USB 56K modem from TigerDirect = $30. Then go get for free, a program called PhoneTray for your PC. Plug your phone-jack into the USB modem, run software. Set it to answer on one ring to preempt your answering service. The software is infinitely user-definable. Block 800/888, entire area codes (California etc for example) Block all calls starting with EG: 979, etc etc. Build your list as you get the calls. Auto hang-up, play pre-defined 'put me on your do-not-call' list voice messages - whatever you want. It's all there. Works with Bell, VOIP etc. All you need is call display which you likely have anyway. "Private Numbers" can be handled how you define them.
Answer, speak immediately so the computer will transfer to a live person. Then have fun with it, tell them you are so interested, but keep saying you are doing things, like answering doorbell, getting pen and paper, getting credit card.
The more you can waste that live person's time (and wages) will get you off call lists faster than any "do not call" list. I do this, and they never call again, and I have rarely been getting new calls.
Hit them where it hurts, the wallet.
If a nice percentage of people did this, all telemarketing would probably stop...
And please feel free to pass all of this along whenever you post comments on other numbers...
BTW: the best I've been able to do is keep them on the line for 11 minutes, but with only coming back to the phone for 15 seconds at a time, three times. So my 45 seconds cost them 11 minutes of wages.
I suggest this is in fact Ryerson, although I believe also subject to abuse by students etc.
This number just called and while I was looking it up here on this site, my teenager answered. I asked them who they were talking to and it was their friend, calling from Ryerson.
Look folks, here's the set-up i have that has reduced my telephone grief dramatically. You know do-not-call lists are ineffective, but here's the next best approach and doesn't rely on outside aid. Go buy a Hiro USB 56K modem from TigerDirect = $30. Then go get for free, a program called PhoneTray for your PC. Plug your phone-jack into the USB modem, run software. Set it to answer on one ring to preempt your answering service. The software is infinitely user-definable. Block 800/888, entire area codes (California etc for example) Block all calls starting with EG: 979, etc etc. Build your list as you get the calls. Auto hang-up, play pre-defined 'put me on your do-not-call' list voice messages - whatever you want. It's all there. Works with Bell, VOIP etc. All you need is call display which you likely have anyway. "Private Numbers" can be handled how you define them.